Breech-loading firearm.



PATENTED MAY 31 1904.

. P. FAY. BREEGH LOADING FIREARM.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 24, 1902,

NO HODEL.

' c QEPQEAHON.

Patented may 31, 1904.

intent @irricia J oer cores minus, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR 'ro it soon consent,-

GF CHICOPEE FALLS, MASSA- EEGH=LQADENQ FiREAFih Application filed. July 2 1902 r part of Letters Patent r30. 761,463, dated May 31, 1904:.

sum No. 116,800. on model.)

ZGriAnLns P. FAY, aci izen es oi Americm residing at county of Hampden and has have invented new and npr' v o tsin Breech-LeadingFirel .e following is a specification. n elates to improvements in V or its pm ticnlar object the or edecting the longii barrel with referin which it is supported, of the end of the barrel H8 breech-block is forced to o oreech or the face the breechbe taken up. do n guns of the type to which tien is particularly applicable the -s in the 'I'rsine of the arm nn 'o shoulder on the barrel, the rear end of th utter projecting through the frame, to

the end that the sch-block may be loied an, .inst lei the barrel. Events-- ly the end or Darrel or the face of the ell-block Wears away sufiiciently to pree ntacr oetwcen the breech-block ;l of the barrel and there is no .iis defect may be remedied e arni back to the shop. .VB-i, provides means for action, and the means for 1 0 fully set forth in the and fully illust'ated g" drawings, in wnich ire 1 shows a breech-loading; gun in side c d011, partly insection having my invenon applied hereto. Fig. 2 is a perspective r of a nut bushing adapted to be screwed the forward end of the frame. Figs. 3 1 illustrate a modification of the concacn Zion sl'wrn in Fig. i.

ii the accompany indicate the frame c, the breech-block, mshing which screws int-o the d of the frame and constitm :58 an e abutment against which the lt-nrrel may come to a bearinwhereby the extent the rear end of the of its projection beyond l frame a may be determined. (he barrel 6 is 1 turned down at its rear end to fit closely into i the frame of the arm, which is bored out to receive it, and the internal diameter of the l bushing d is the same as the diameter of the bore in the frame which receives the turneddown end of the barrel. In the under side of the barrel there is formed a cone-shaped rcccss g, into which the beveled end of a screw it, whiri threaded into the frame beneath the barrel, maycnter. In manufacturing the firearm the location oi the recess 7 is such that when the rear end of the barrel is propcrly adjusted relative to the breech-block the apex of said conical recess will be forward of the beveled point of the screw 72/, as shown in 1 and 3, to the end that the point of said screw may bear only against the rear side of said recess. if now the nut d is screwed into the frame more or less, the screw 72 may be turned up to force the barrel still. farther toward the breecl1-blocl to compensate for any wear that may have taken vplace.

in Fig. 3 instead of the bushing (i being threaded into the frame a it is internally threaded in the form of a nut and screwed onto the barrel in proximity to the shoulder f thereon, be, veen which, however, and the side of the nut a space 2 is left. The space of course is much exaggerated in the drawings. The nnt (Kin this construction serves the same purpose as when in the shape of a bushing it is screwed into the end of the frame, as in Fi 1. In one case the barrel comes up against the end oi the bushing, which is screwed into the frame. and in -the other case the nut which is "screwed onto the barrel comes up against the end of the frame. construction is that shown in Fig. 1.

In Fig. i there is shown a second modification, which is in all respects like that shown in Fig. 3 with the exception that the barrel screws into the frame instead of being held therein by a screw it entering the recess in 1 the underside of the barrel.

To provide convenient means for screwing up the bushing or nut (Z, holes (1 may be provided around the forward edge thereof for the insertion of a pin or spannezc, or any other screwing into one end of said hole against suitable meansmay be resorted to to provide which a shenlder at the turned-dawn end of for the easy adjustment of the bushing or nut. the barrel abuts, and sonically-painted screw ,l-laving thus described my invention, What; in the frame an right angles to the barrel 1 claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat adapted to enter a depression in the latte? lid 5 ent of the United States, is hold the barrel against saicl bushing! lhe eombinetiqn with the fx'ame 0:? afire- CHAR-LE3 F 3, Fifl l I n1 having a smooth barrel-receiving hole mez'ein of barrel lmvi'rlga wrnecl-down end 1 adapfied to slide into said hole; a bushing 

